Apbil 5, 1900. 



The Weekly Florists' Review. 



J415 



ST. LOUIS. 



The Market. 



The cut flower trade in this city the 

 paKt week was anything but good; in 

 fact, the whole month of March there 

 was little doing except for funerals. The 

 ueather had a great deal to do with the 

 dull business. Just six clear days during 

 the month, and five snow storms. Satur- 

 day was the first day that looked like 

 spring. The baseball season opened that 

 day and everybody wore a white or a 

 red rose, the colors of the two local 

 teams. The south end florists had quite 

 a busy day on Friday with funeral work, 

 and the wholesalers cleaned up pretty 



well. 



Stock has shortened >ip again and 

 prices, of course, have risen. There is 

 a fair lot of roses in the market. The 

 cloudy weather seems to have put a stop 

 to the big consignments of carnations 

 that glutted the market a week ago; 

 still enough are in for the demand. Bulb- 

 ous stock continues scarce and will be 

 until Easter. Violets, too, have short- 

 tMied up considerably. 



Various Notec 



Alex. Siegle and John Burke spent a 

 few days in Chicago the past week. 

 Charles Connon had charge of their 

 stores while they were awiiy. 



A new seed house has opened at 912 

 N. Broadway under the name of the 

 Teasdale Seed Co. They report a good 

 opening trade. 



The Ellison Floral Co. has its down- 

 town branch, in Simmons ' store, in work- 

 ing order. Arthur Ellison has charge. 



James Dunford has a fine lot of 

 Spiraea Gladstone, all perfect plants, for 

 which he has taken a great many orders. 



Wm. Schray & Sons have a fine lot of 

 azaleas, hybrid roses, Ramblers, lilies 

 and other blooming stock, which will be 

 just right for Easter. Their new canna, 

 Superior, is selling well. 



The St. Louis Palm Co. has to vacate 

 its present location in a few weeks. 

 New quarters have been found at lOlU 

 Olive street. 



Philip Gieble, who has been at Tower 

 <3rove park for many years, on April 1 

 took a position at Reservoir ]>ark. He 

 has been sick since January 1, but now 

 is as well as ever. 



James Gurney, superintendent of 

 Tower Grove park, is spending a few 

 •weeks at Eureka Springs, Ark. James 

 Gurney, Jr., is in charge of the park. 



The club meeting will take place next 

 Thursday afternoon, April 12, just three 

 davs before Easter. Good chance for 

 the growers to sell some of their surplus 

 blooming plants. President Ammann is 

 looking for a large attendance. 



Bowling. 



Tlie floiist liowlers defeated tlie strong 

 Reliance team, March 29. winning three 

 games by the following scores: 



Plnv.r. 1st 2.1 -Ul 



Ellison 1"B 210 16:{ 



Knehn !«<• 1«" 1"« 



Schr..(T..,- 1S2 141J 0!. 



Beyer 17'5 12!» 202 



Relliiii<'e 



,S!>4 SIR ST.T 

 .S27 707 X-A-i 



J. J. B. 



Brooklyn, 0.— M. Bloy is showing 

 flome particularly fine sweet peas, large 

 flowers and stems ten to twelve inches 

 long, at the well kept establishment of 

 the Ohio Floral Co. 



"northern TEXAS. 



The/past week has been the most dis- 

 agreeable one that I have experienced, 

 rain all the time, with chilly northeast 

 winds, and, although the thermometer 

 did not go below 28 degrees, it felt cold 

 and raw. "When tlie wind changes or it 

 gets cloudy, tlio iK'oj)le shut themselves 

 uji, social fiiiictioiis cea.se and business 

 gets to look gloomy. All classes of work 

 out-of-doors has stopped, planters cannot 

 get into the fields, nurserymen cannot 

 plant their seedlings, and people cannot 

 visit the greenhouses. But they say evil 

 produces good, so we have the consola- 

 tion of knowing that the weather is hold- 

 ing back Easter stock, which was coming 

 along too fast. 



Things at present are quiet, a few 

 funerals taking up the greater part of 

 the stock. Carnations are looking well 

 at some places, while at one or two places 

 they are done for. My experience so far 

 tells me that the cooler carnations are 

 grown liero the better they bloom; those 

 here who advocated running their houses 

 at a night temperature of 60 degrees are 

 regretting they did so now. 



Various methods of manuring are tried 

 with varying success; a;nong others, cot- 

 tonseed meal, a fertilizer to me of doubt- 

 ful quality, considering the tendency of 

 some plants to disease and stem-rot. 



What seems to me the greatest cause 

 of failure, or partial success, lies in the 

 weak, diseased cutting and planting the 

 Ijench with weak stock improperly 

 pindicd back, overwatered when first 

 jjlanted, neglecting to ventilate when 

 needed, and, in their eagerness to get 

 results, many rely upon their own judg- 

 ment instead of watching conditions 

 closely and profiting by those conditions. 

 I find the majority, in place of leaving 

 the growing to cool, practical, experi- 

 enced growers, try methods which they 

 think may be right, or listen to the ad- 

 vice of amateurs. This interferes with 

 the success of their growers and, when 

 failure inevitably results, place the blame 

 upon the grower. 



The greater number of those in busi- 

 ness through this country just fell into 

 the business naturally and have gradually 

 worked up with their business and made 

 moiu'v i'Tiough to spread out and are 

 nearly all more successful than one 

 would think. 



What few roses have been planted as 

 an experiment are showing the effects of 

 the rainy weather. But my first impres- 

 sion that they can be successfully grown 

 here has not changed. At some future 

 time 1 will write the method employed. 

 Bulbous stock is nearly all gone; there 

 will not be any for Easter. Harrisii will 

 be in all right. Azaleas are coming in 

 fast and there will not be many left. 



Green carnations were a novelty here 

 St. Patrick 's day, no one here having 

 ever seen the doctored article before, and 

 what had been prepared went readily at 

 $1.25 per dozen. Bedding stock is look- 

 ing well and the wish is that it may 

 clear up so that planting may commence. 

 We understand that Mr. Majors, 

 grower for Munson, at Denison, will take 

 charge of the growing for the Texas 

 Nursery Co., of Sherman, May 1. They 

 contemplate erecting one or more houses 

 to grow carnations. 



J. S. Kerr, the popular nurseryman of 

 Sherman, was called away suddenly to 

 Butte, Mont., on account of the serious 

 illness of his son, who is there. 



Mrs. H. O. Hannah & Son, of Sherman, 

 had the monopoly of the green carna- 



tion business St. Patrick's day and 

 reaped •\ small harvest. Narcissus. 



ROCHESTER. 



Current Comment. 



Frencli, Dutch and Japanese goods 

 make a splendid showing now, and with 

 a few days of sunny weather we have 

 an idea that at Easter we will have a 

 chance to regain some of the Lenten 

 losses and come out even, or better. 



:\lr. Oviatt has (}uite a place here with 

 a good assortment of stock of flowering 

 and foliage plants. Bedding plants are 

 given their share of space and sweet 

 peas are grown in quantity. All appear 

 to be in good shape. 



For some time past J. B. Keller Sons 

 have been more or less mentally and 

 financially disturbed by the disappear- 

 ance of their stock. Determined to dis- 

 cover the leakage, a burglar alarm was 

 attached to the carnation house entrance. 

 Returning home rather late (or, perhaps, 

 somewhat early) from a meeting of con- 

 vivial friends (we have no Florists' 

 Club here), the bell rang, and George 

 Keller knew that something was wrong. 

 Armed with revolver, rifle and bowie 

 knife, George rushed out to find a wo- 

 man crouching beneath a bench. Far be 

 it from us to detract from George's 

 pluck, but we must say that the lady 

 has been judged irresponsible. As she 

 had omitted to complete her toilet be- 

 fore making her selection of carnations, 

 naturally Mr. Keller was much embar- 

 rassed. 



Our commission man reports satisfac- 

 tory trade and prophesies good business 

 for Easter. Sweet peas, daffodils, etc., 

 while in first-class condition, have not 

 yielded the best cash results. Bermuda 

 lilies have been bringing 12 to 15 cents, 

 and, as a rule, the quality is good. 



Salter Bros, have some original make- 

 \ips in their store, which have caused 

 (juite a good deal of interest, and the 

 other local dealers report brisk business. 

 Small azaleas have proven a paying 

 proposition, and altogether there seems 

 a more hopeful feeling throughout the 

 trade. F. S. P. 



Hl(;in'. Ti.L. — Fred Plagge was called 

 to Turtle Lake, Wis., March 27, by the 

 death of his sister, ^Irs. John Busch. 

 Mr. Busch, liusband of the deceased, was 

 a tlorist in this city for a number of 

 years. 



Mv subscription ex|)ires April 20, and 

 I renew it now, as I do not wish to miss 

 a copy. I have learned more from the 

 Kf^view than from any other paper. 

 Kveryone in the trade should read it. 

 You may publish this if you want to, for 

 it is just and true.— Jacob H. Lixkey, 

 Mountville, Pa. 



SiTtlNfiFlELD. li.ii. — The Illinois State 

 Horticultural Society, to ])romote the 

 uu»re general observance of Arbor day, 

 recommencLs the planting of some tree, 

 plant or see<ls by every school district, 

 witii ai)propriate exercises by the pupils, 

 as a proper observance of the day. It 

 would also request individual planters 

 generally, so far as it may be con- 

 venient, to give preference to Arbor day 

 for their annual planting, to the end 

 that the great state of Illinois shall 

 with one accord join in making this one 

 of the notable days of the year in a 

 work of economy, wealth and beauty. 



